Glass mold



J. G. MQRITZ GLASS MOLD Nov. 13 1923- Filed May 23. 1922 2 Sheets-Sheet l v 3 141 x2114 0 0 c/zzzgmrz GLASS MOLD Filed May 23, 1.922

2 Sheets-Sheet 2 641101 was:

Patented Nov. 13, 1923.

UNITED STATES JOHN G. MORITZ, OF GLASSPORT, PENNSYLVANIA.

GLASS Application filed May 23,

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that JOHN G. Monrrz, a citizen of the United States of America, residing at Glassport, in the county of Allegheny and State of Pennsylvania, has invented new and useful Improvements in Glass Molds, of which the following is a specification.

The object of the invention is to provide a simple, inexpensive and eflicient means whereby the handle of a glass receptacle such as a basket may be molded simultaneously and in connection with or attached to the body portion of the article and may be made of any preferred design suited to that of the body of the receptacle while permitting of the opening of the mold for the removal of the article as soon as the plunger and cap or ring have been withdrawn from the body portion of the mold; and with these objects in view the invention consists in a construction and combination of parts of which a preferred embodiment is shown in the accompanying drawings, wherein Figure 1 is a side View, and

Figure 2 is a longitudinal sectional view of a mold embodying the invention.

Figure 3 is a view similar to Figure 2 showing the lifter in operation after the removal of the plunger and cap or ring.

Figure 4 is a plan view of the mold body.

Figure 5 is an inverted view of the ring or cap.

Figure 6 is a transverse sectional view of the mold body.

Figure 7 is a detail view of the lifter detached.

The mold body 10 mounted upon a suitable base 11 corresponds in general construction with those now in common use and may be made of any desired number of relatively movable sectionsthat is two or more, the type selected for illustration of the invention having the main section 1.0 and the supplemental sections 10 hingedly connected with the main or front section by the pins 12 engaging eyes 13, and hingedly connected together and detachably connected together by the pin 14 engaging the eye 15. Likewise the ring or cap 16 and the plunger 17 used in connection therewith are in general features of the ordinarv or conventional forms and operate as in the usual practice.

It will further be understood that the MOLD.

1922. Serial No. 563,057.

mold mav be made of any desired size depending upon the dimensions of the receptacle to be molded and may be adapted for producing molded articles of any preferred or desired shape or design.

Formed in the face of the mold body and in the under surface of the ring or cap are the registrable complementary grooves or channels 18 and 19 combining to form a mold for a receptacle handle, and the eX- tremities or" the channel thus provided are extended downwardly and inwardly as indicated at 18 to break into the interior of the body portion of the mold so as to unite the extremities of the handle molded therein with the body of the receptacle at points below the upper edge thereof and at any desired distance therefrom to suit the design of the article. This handle molding channel is disposed in concentric or partly surrounding relation with the opening in the body portion of the mold, substantially in the plane of the upper edge of the latter and in communication with the interior of the body portion of the mold as above indicated, so that in the operation of the plunger after the seating of the ring or cap and the pouring of the molten glass or other material of which the receptacle is to be produced, the material will find its way into the handle molding channel at the same time that it finds its way into the other portions of the mold to produce the design for which the mold. is intended.

Also, as in the usual practice, after the necessary stroke of the plunger, the latter is lifted with the ring or cap from the body portion of the mold to expose the upper end of the molded article, and with a view to providing for the opening of the body of the mold to permit the removal of the molded article that feature constituting the essential part of the present invention has been designed and consists of a means for raising the molded handle out of the channel in the body of the mold to assume an upwardly deflected position as indicated in Figure 3. In the illustrated embodiment of the invention this means consists of a lifter block 20 let into a recess 21 in the front section of the body of the mold and conforming in configuration with the adjacent portion of the surface or face of the mold and in effect constituting a segment of the edge of the mold, together with means for displacing said lifter block upwardly after the plunger and ring have been removed from the body of the mold.

Said means consist of a lever Al pivotally mounted as at 22 in a suitable opening 23 in the front end of the mold and pivot,

It will be understood that the construction indicated provides for the fornnition of a handle, of any cesired sectional contour or shape and also of any desired longitudinal formation and that after the removal of the receptacle from the mold or at anytime subsequent thereto during the finishing of .the article, the bent portions of handle member may be reheated or straightened or given any desired form in accordance with the design contemplated for the completed article.

in order to permit of relative sliding movement of the sections of the mold. body the front mold section 10 is provided with a depending 111 26 engaging a slot 27 in the base, so that after the withdrawal of the plunger and ring or ap and the Optlllllflll of the lifter to displace or (lBflOCl) the handle member of the molded rece tacie the from: section of the mold body can be moved away from the other section thereof upon the disengagement of the hinge pins by which the sections are connected.

l-lsving described the invention, what is claimed as new and useful is 1. A molding apparatus of the type in dicated having a section or mold body and a ring or cap provided in their contact faces with compleinental registering channels combining to form a handle mold in communication with the interior of the receptacle mold and means for upwardly deflecting the molded handle after the completion of the molding operation and consis ing of a litter block movable with re- 1 to and carried by one of the mold "one.

52 A. molding apparatus of the type in dieated having a section or mold body and "ring or cap provided in heir contact with eomplemental re, 'ig channels combining to form a handle mold in connnunication with the interior of the receptacle mold, and means for upwardly oc ecting the molded handle after the coinplction of the molding operation and consisting of lifter block constituting a segment one of the mold sections including a portion of the handle molding element thereofi mounted for movement in a direction at an angle to the plane of the face of the mold.

3. 1i. molding apparatus of the type in- :flicated having a section or mold body and a ring or cap provided in t 1 .ir contact faces with conipleinental registering channels co bining to rm a handle mold in comr. cation with the interior of the recep tacle mold and means for upwardly deflecting the molt ed handle after the completion of the molding operation and consisti of a lifter block lot into the face of one of the in-old bod sections and a. terminall e10.

JOHN G. MQRITZ. 

